Mary E. Harris
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Hosting @Slate ’s daily news podcast What Next. Nope, there is no apostrophe in the show name. Alum: @WNYC Always:
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Back in February I got
@jesiblanchard
on the phone and realized I had to ask my boss
@AMontgomery_998
to send me to Georgia. I just knew I needed to visit Jessie in person (something that is rare and difficult when you host a daily show!). I'm so grateful Alicia said yes. (1/?)
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Walk up to everyone you want to interview the way Nina Totenberg walks up to the Terminator
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Whenever I feel overwhelmed by my responsibilities I’m just gonna look back at this photo
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All I want is for Kamala Harris to be recruiting Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dolly Parton to go on a road show to sell voting rights. It could happen y’all
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Someone at the Sun is really bringing their true authentic self to work today🙃
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I love how Dexter Filkins describes
@RanaAyyub
in the
@NewYorker
this week: she "speaks with disorienting speed and infectious warmth; it is difficult to resist answering her questions." Hear her voice 👉
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I'm going to save you tens of thousands of dollars on journalism school and tell you that the most important question you'll ever ask in an interview is "how do you know that?"
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Some people think the first sign of spring is crocuses, but I live in New York
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I called up
@AdamSerwer
to get his take on Juneteenth. He ended up giving me a history lesson to explain how fragile this moment is:
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SUPREME COURT/
@NinaTotenberg
fans - if you love this gif, you'll for sure love my podcast tomorrow morning. And until then, you will love this one. 😍
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This line about should make a lot of journalists think - not just at NPR: "[Our] culture encouraged an editorial fixation on finding the exact middle point of the elite political and social thought, planting a flag there, and calling it objectivity."
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I was devastated to get the news that my former colleague Richard Hake has died. He was a generous coworker (and union shop head). And a New Yorker through and through. His dad was NYPD. Here’s how I want to remember him. (THREAD)
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Hi! We won! And I was so surprised that I forgot to unmute myself when I accepted the award. Wow! Bedtime got weird
Hats off to
@Slate
and
@marysdesk
for not only helping us stay up-to-date on the news but for winning the Ambie for Best News Podcast.
#TheAmbies
#podcastawards
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Best part of The Daily this morning was
@neal_katyal
really working to make "fake attorney general" a thing
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Gonna need another 9,995 hours to perfect these cookies ffs
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So Alabama really did this. Worth remembering that minors impregnated by incest (who this law would ban from getting an abortion) are not theoretical in Alabama. A couple of years back a 12yo sought an abortion for this reason:
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If you are looking to be fully informed before tomorrow’s argument about affirmative action may I recommend this conversation from THREE YEARS AGO with
@ElieNYC
which still slaps
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G'morning! If you want to feel smarter and saner about the DOJ right now, I highly recommend listening to
@benjaminwittes
on What Next last night:
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What makes this story truly haunting is imagining how this case would play out if the parents weren't BOTH doctors, professionally connected to their accusers, able to have Harvard experts weigh in on their behalf
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Every New Yorker has their own thing they hate about this but mine is that they are DEFINITELY NOT at 42nd street at the end and I resent the edit
"Karma Chameleon" is taking over the New York Subways!
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Why so much movement behind bills restricting how folks vote? At least in GA, the Dems beat the Rs at their own game.
@AriBerman
-- and the legislators pushing against these laws -- explain:
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There is no better metaphor for the unrequited love that is parenthood than the tenderly prepared lunchbox that returns at the end of the day completely intact save the ritz bits
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@jesiblanchard
@AMontgomery_998
Finally, last night, I got to share the story we've been working on since that trip, a true collaboration with the magical geniuses at
@ThisAmerLife
and
@Slate
. It's a thrill for this work to be in the world, and reaching your ears. (2/?)
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I’ve been at so many workplaces where Black and brown employees simply left because there didn’t seem to be room for them at the table. It’s meaningful that employees
@WNYC
believe in their institution enough to stay and demand more. It’s a kind of love.
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This AM:
@ryangrim
on the digital infrastructure behind Bernie's people power - and why Sanders needs a win in Iowa:
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Please take a few moments to listen to
@kshaheen
this morning. And: Listen till the end. I rarely get emotional in interviews. I did in this one.
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After the midterms I wanted to talk to
@jbouie
because his enviable chill is just the perfect antidote to the usual breathlessness. Listen!
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I would buy a drug that replicates the feeling of crossing things off of lists
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Glad I'm friends with
@ElieNYC
on Facebook cuz it means my feed contains gems like this, which require a few more characters than twitter 🔥🔥🔥
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Wonder a lot about the Kinko's that's closest to Capitol Hill
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Worth adding: this is what I looked like as I put the show to bed. It’s been a year of this! Anyhoo, listen:
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Finally, listening to
@edyong209
, even when he tells you the most terrible stuff -- is somehow... soothing? He wants you to get ready for our pandemic future, stop waiting around for a vaccine, and vote:
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Went to the playground. Ran into a principal and a vice principal from my kids’ school. Wish you’d all been there to see the look of disbelief on their faces when they learned schools were reopening from a PARENT WHATSAPP GROUP ffs 🤦🏻♀️
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Gotta say, looking back at this convo with
@jim_newell
yesterday - he's never been righter in his life
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OK, parental leave. NPR just negotiated for 20 weeks. WaPo is at 20 weeks too. We're at *11*. Here is an argument from THE BLACKSTONE GROUP for more leave. It is from 2017. In the Wall Street Journal.
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Oh hey it’s just me, hoping the dog doesn’t bark and realizing that tomorrow’s guest has way better lighting (and probably isn’t in a closet)
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You can measure the level of work emergency we are at by the insanity of the snack I’m willing to put in my face and we are at 🚨Threat Level Funyun🚨
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ICYMI, this pretty much sums up my appearance on MSNBC this weekend: me laughing my face off with
@ElieNYC
and
@kendisgibson
. Also: I gotta tweet when someone does my hair
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Oh THANK YOU. That was the hardest hosting I've ever done, supported by an amazing
@WNYC
team.
it's not all bad news🤘.
@marysdesk
doing a great job filling in for leonard lopate despite turmoil.
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If you want to know how good Caliphate is u should know I tried to punch in my NYT username/pword *during a run* today in order to access epi 2, like a real addict. congrats
@rcallimachi
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Man, it was fun to have one of those old timey rollicking conversations about politics this morning with
@DrJasonJohnson
. Spent all of Kamala's speech wishing I could just, like, text with him:
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Was trying to explain to my producer why, when she said "Poconos," this image is seared into my brain. Am I the only one
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Honestly
@hannahdreier
should go from journalism school to journalism school teaching the interview she did with a police commissioner, here:
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72 hours till our contract expires. Here are some reasons we're still negotiating, and why it matters.
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Ambassador
@McFaul
knows better than most what this impeachment hearing is going to sound like. In one word: Messy --
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How today’s interview from inside a closet ended: an announcement that there was a “special delivery”, a note shoved under the closet door, and a message (about Mother’s Day?) that felt slightly ominous
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I live in a very New York apartment where one of my kids’ rooms is only as wide as a twin bed. Last night I wedged an IKEA bed frame in here and it is stuck. Today I’m attempting to parallel park the bed. Send good vibes
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Perhaps you are wondering how my 5-person show will cover the upcoming election? Welcome to the recording studio
@jdeleon1291
has hidden in my closet
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Hello. You’ve reached Mary. I am currently out of the office (and not really pulling my weight at Double Dutch)
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Andrew Yang’s chief strategist wrote a book and this is one of the chapter titles and I just...
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Cohost with the most
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Say what you want about New Yorkers, we have a sense of humor
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There's this saying: "wins don't stay won" when it comes to civil rights. No better example of that than what's going on with FL voters right now.
@mjs_DC
with the full story:
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@jesiblanchard
@AMontgomery_998
@ThisAmerLife
@Slate
So many people had a hand in making this thing great - it was an article by
@dankois
that led me to Never Use Alone in the first place. Slate sent
@aymanndotcom
with me to take gorgeous photos of Jessie and write his own story. (3/?)
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I can't stop thinking about this line from the James Carville profile in the Times and all I can say is it is so much easier to have "fun" when your fundamental human rights are not being constantly litigated (often not in your favor) 🤷♀️
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I seriously appreciated this conversation with
@aaronecarroll
. If you are confused about masks... I hope this helps:
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Being in self isolation with a 5yo who has developed a sudden affinity for “Bye Bye Birdie” is a little like being trapped with the ghost of Phyllis Schlafly
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I just want my podcast studio to be as cool as the one in the ulcerative colitis ad
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The news is kind of trash, so today -- go outside with
@edyong209
! (Even when he comes with tough things to say, they're still sort of magical?)
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This gives me a good opportunity to say: I just did my last formal interview... for three weeks. I'm taking a lil break. I love my job with my whole heart, and I have never in my working life taken this much time off. But it feels necessary.
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If I win a “best news podcast” Ambie tonight, just know, my kid was sitting next to me playing with Scratch the entire time
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The rest of y’all are pawing through your bookshelves for your high school yearbook too, right?
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I love that this
@NPRinskeep
story doesn’t give you the thing you’ve been trained to expect from adoption stories (a reunion) and keeps turning your head towards a wholly different idea (consent)
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My kid is v v excited about the ant infestation in our kitchen and has begun naming the ants. Antonio. Anthony. Anton. Send help
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"This isn't a very organized way of governing" --
@hbottemiller
on what a Washington food fight can tell you about how Congress is working rn:
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Being an adult is such a pain that every day I try to do one thing simply because I, an adult human, can. Anyway today that thing was eating strawberry shortcake for breakfast, would recommend 14/10
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Here's why
@nedprice
says the security clearance news this week "feels like a slap in the face":
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Elie is worth reading no matter what, but I especially love that he put himself out there like this. It's revealing.
Asian Americans have legitimate concerns about Harvard's admissions policies, and those concerns were erased and replaced by the white conservative movement's endless quest to kill affirmative action. And that is really a shame. My latest in
@thenation
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The Glamourous Women of Slate (... GLOS?) are gonna watch the crap outta this debate
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Trying to transition my kid from Taylor Swift to Tori Amos — wish me luck!
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Lots of things to recommend this
@rtraister
profile of Tish James, but my favorite is this bit. Back when she was on city council, Tish made the phone company remove the broken pole in my back yard. Still grateful!
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My 13 yo just had his first public radio driveway moment (“mom don’t turn off the car!”) for this week’s Snap Judgment. Thanks
@Andy_Marra
@glynnwashington
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Thank you
@GissouNia
for coming on the show today. If you're wondering why this round of protests in Iran are different -- listen:
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It’s Tuesday. Pls allow me to start your day off right. This is the “This Black Life Matters” board at my kids’ school.
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You're hearing about Trump vs. The Squad. Today's What Next with
@ryangrim
is about why that framing is WAY too narrow:
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Couldn't let the passing of Judy Heumann go unnoticed on the pod. Thank you to
@NotYourAvgHo101
for remembering her with us:
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It wouldn’t be a visit to the Supreme Court without answering a question from
@NinaTotenberg
. It was a joy, and she clearly lives by my rule: don’t listen to the naysayers. Proud to be her co-star.
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I'm just trying to make the math of "we had enough money for *two* hosts but none of them were LeVar Burton"... work
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Listening to an interview and realizing "oof" is slowly replacing "hm" in the Mary Harris lexicon
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Life hack from an 8 year old: “sometimes I keep candy in my shoes. Mostly skittles, and starbursts.”
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So wild to be sitting here listening to More Perfect on the radio after hearing today’s WNYC layoff news. WNYC was my work home for a decade. The whole thing makes me just…sad.
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So, how do people who care about abortion rights talk about them now? Loved this convo with
@anatosaurus
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We've been fighting over who counts in this country since our founding.
@AriBerman
says that fight is about to heat up. Again.
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Richard didn’t miss a beat. I think he even joked about it on air. It was like watching a gymnast land a floor routine. Afterwards, he said that was the beauty of live radio - and reminded me “the audience LOVES that.” When things mess up a little, we all lean in closer.
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Can we talk about court reform now? Well,
@mjs_DC
and I can, but the people pulling the levers in Washington... maybe not -- here's why
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